Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: PRA: List of Reactionary Groups (2/2)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 23:42:25 GMT

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The Independence Institute
Golden, CO 
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Member, Earth Day 
Alternatives coalition in 1990.

Independent Institute
Oakland, CA
Conservative policy analysis. Cooperated with the 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Indiana Policy Review Foundation
Fort Wayne, IN
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Insight Magazine
P.O. Box 91022 
Washington, DC 20090-1022
A ultra-conservative publication related to Rev. 
Sun Myung Moon, it carries homophobic and 
authoritarian materials. 

Instauration 
Howard Allen Enterprises
Box 76
Cape Canaveral, FL 32920
Nasty nativism fills this monthly magazine which 
displays an alarming distaste for 
African-Americans and Jews. Editor: Wilmot Robertson.

Institute for American Values
Dudley, MA
Conservative policy analysis. Cooperated with the 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Cannot locate 
current phone listing.

Institute for Business Ethics
Conservative policy analysis think tank. Was 
member of Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Institute for Creation Research
P.O. Box 2667
El Cajon, CA 92021
(619) 448-0900

Promotes creationism over evolution.
Institute for Contemporary Studies
San Francisco, CA
Conservative think tank. Was member of Madison 
Group in early 1990's.

Institute for Humane Studies
Fairfax, VA
Conservative policy analysis. Cooperated with the 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Institute for Policy Innovation 
Lewisville, TX
Conservative policy analysis. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Institute for Research and Evaluation
Director Stan Weed, Ph.D. frequently is cited in 
materials promoting abstinence-only curricula.

Institute for the Scientific Investigation
of Sexuality
See Family Research Institute.

Institute of Political Economy
Utah State University
Logan, Utah 84322-0725
(801) 750-2064
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Member, Earth Day 
Alternatives coalition in 1990.

Institute on Religion and Democracy
1331 H St., NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 393-3200
Regards the National Council of Churches as 
manipulated by Marxist ideologues. Condemns 
liberation theology. Trivializes attempts to deal 
with sexism, racism, homophobia, and classism 
within organized religion.

Intercessors for America
P.O. Box 2639
Reston, VA 22090
(703) 471-0913
Chaired by John Beckett, the group organizes 
prayer groups to confront sinfulness. Works 
closely with the Christian Reconstruction 
movement. 

Intercollegiate Studies Institute 
14 S. Bryn 
Mawr Ave.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
(800) 526-7022
A mainstay of the old right, the institute 
publishes the monthly CAMPUS: America's Student 
Newspaper, Intercollegiate Review, ISI Update, 
Political Science Review, and the quarterly 
journal Modern Age. Opposes multi-culturalism and 
all forms of liberalism.

J.M. Foundation
Leading funder of conservative and 
ultra-conservative causes.

James Madison Institute (for Public Policy Studies)
Tallahassee, FL
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Member, Earth Day 
Alternatives coalition in 1990.

Jerry Falwell Ministries 
Lynchburg, VA 24514
804 239-9281
Jerry Falwell is one of the most influential 
Christian right televangelists who started the 
Moral Majority, then replaced it after a brief 
hiatus with the Liberty Alliance. He also founded 
Liberty University.

John Birch Society
770 Westhill Blvd.
Appleton, WI 54915
(414) 749-3780
Ultra-conservative and reactionary membership 
organization that believes the New World Order is 
the fruition of a centuries-old conspiracy of 
financial elites networked through the Trilateral 
Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, and 
other similar groups. Publishes The New American. 
Challenges strict environmental regulations. 
Rigidly homophobic. Opposes OBE. Founded and led 
by Robert Welch until his death.  
JBS promotes a paranoid and conspiratorial view of history. 
Although some members harbor alarming views, the 
JBS has a policy of expelling members who make 
overt public racist and anti-Jewish statements. 
However, it opposed integration and claimed the 
civil rights movement was a communist plot.

John Locke Foundation
Raleigh, NC
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Josh McDowell Ministries
P.O. Box 1000
Dallas, TX 75221
(214) 907-1000
Opposes comprehensive sexuality education. Josh 
McDowell also speaks for Campus Crusade for Christ.

Knights of Columbus
Conservative Catholic lay society. A major 
financial contributor to the U.S. Catholic 
Bishop's anti-choice campaign.

Knights of Malta
Reactionary Catholic lay society with 
aristocratic roots and diplomatic status for its 
ambassadors. (Full name: Sovereign Military and 
Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of 
Rhodes and of Malta).

Lambda Report
See The Report.

Lambs of Christ
Direct action anti-choice group. (Also known as 
Victim Souls for the Unborn Christ Child).

Landmark Legal Foundation
Kansas City, MO
Conservative legal foundation. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

LaRouche Network
P.O. Box 889
Leesburg, VA 22075
(703) 777-9451
Far Right. Run by the neo-fascist Lyndon 
LaRouche. Other LaRouche groups and publications 
include The New Federalist, Executive 
Intelligence Review, the Club of Life, and the 
Schiller Institute. Former civil rights activist 
Rev. James Bevel now works closely with the 
LaRouche Network. Rigidly homophobic. Its 
featuring of prominent Jews as part of an 
ages-old global Aristotelian/Babylonian 
conspiracy has earned it a reputation for 
anti-Jewish bigotry.

Law and Economic Center
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
Conservative policy analysis. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Leadership Institute
Springfield, VA
Hosts subsidized training seminars for young 
conservative activists.

Legacy Communications
P.O. Box 680365
Franklin, TN 37068
(615) 794-2898
Dr. George Grant leads a project to "develop a 
Christian and biblical view toward our culture, 
specifically, and the world, in general." Grant, 
formerly with Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, 
has written lengthy treatises attacking Planned 
Parenthood and the ACLU.

Legatus
Ann Arbor, MI 
Founded by Domino's Pizza's Thomas Monaghan to 
assist major business executives develop projects 
that promote orthodox Catholic values in secular 
society. See also Domino's Foundation.

Liberty Lobby
(See The Spotlight)

Liberty University
Box 20000
Lynchburg, VA 24506
(804) 582-2000
Jerry Falwell, former head of the now-defunct 
Moral Majority, is founder and chancellor of 
Liberty University. See Jerry Falwell Ministries

Liberty Alliance
(See Jerry Falwell Ministries)

Lincoln Caucus
P.O. Box 9854
Phoenix, AZ 85068
(602) 258-5758
Conservative political action group.

Lincoln Institute for Research and Education
An ultra-conservative think tank for 
African-Americans run by J. A. Parker who groomed 
Clarence Thomas as a conservative political 
activist. Publishes Lincoln Review. Typical 
fundraising pitch: "The radical self-appointed 
`Civil Rights' establishment, led by Jesse 
Jackson and the NAACP is trying to turn America 
into a land of quotas and special privileges--for 
blacks and other minorities."

Lincoln Legal Foundation
Chicago, IL
Conservative legal foundation. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Living Parables
Abstinence-only curriculum designed to replace 
comprehensive sex education courses.

Love in Action
P.O. Box 2655
San Rafael, CA 94912 
(415) 454-0960
Ministry that promotes the conversion of gay men 
and lesbians to heterosexuals through counseling. 
Works with "former" homosexuals. Administrator is 
John Paulk, a former female impersonator whose 
identity "had to be rebuilt from the ground up" 
by Love in Action. Paulk appeared in the film The 
Gay Agenda, and has written for the Lambda Report.

Ludwig von Mises Institute
Auburn Univerity, Alabama
Promotes an unrestrained and unregulated 
entrepreneurial form of free market capitalism. A 
leading Paleoconservative think tank. 

The Mackinac Center
Midland, MI
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Madison Center for Educational Affairs
1155 15th St., NW, Suite 712
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 833-1801
Raises funds and provides training for the 
Collegiate Network of ultra-conservative campus 
newspapers. Publishes two quarterlies: Precis and 
Diversity and Division: a critical journal of 
race and culture. The latter trivializes concerns 
over racism, and suggests attempts to promote 
diversity and multiculturalism result in 
divisions that hurt American society.

Madison Group
No longer active. A loosely-knit network of 
conservative state think tanks, networks, and 
legal foundations. Originally launched by the 
American Legislative Exchange Council in 
Washington, DC Housed for a time at the Heartland 
Institute. Has now evolved into a group called 
the State Policy Network. 

The Maldon Institute
P.O. Box 1651
Washington, DC 20013
(410) 366-2531
An ultra-conservative monitoring group that 
prepares assessments on alleged potential 
subversive and terrorist threats from the left 
and right. Martha Powers, director. Evolved from 
the Information Digest, a right-wing spy 
newsletter circulated by John and S. Louis Rees. 
Publicity material reflects a wide range of 
support including the Allegheny Foundation, 
Carthage Foundation, and Anti-Defamamtion League 
of B'Nai B'Rith. Advisory board includes D. James 
Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministies, and W. Raymond 
Wannall, past president of the Association of 
Former Intelligence Agents of the FBI.

The Manhattan Institute
1745 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 466-7300
Conservative policy analysis.

March for Life
P.O. Box 90300
Washington, DC 20090
(202) 543-3377
Opposes and organizes against abortion rights.

Me, My World, My Future
Abstinence-only curriculum. See also Teen-Aid, Inc.

Media Research Center
113 S. West St.
Second Floor
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 683-9733
Finds offensive any traces of liberalism on TV or 
in films. L. Brent Bozell III publishes the 
newsletter TV, Etc., with an advisory board that 
includes Elliot Abrams, Mona Charen, Pete duPont, 
and Rush Limbaugh. 

Mid-America Legal Foundation
Chicago, IL
Conservative legal foundation. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Mississippi Center for Public Policy Studies
University, MS
Conservative policy analysis. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Moral Majority
Now defunct, replaced by Liberty Alliance. See 
Jerry Falwell Ministries.

Morality in Media
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 239
New York, NY 10115
(212) 870-3222
Founded in 1962, now headed by Kevin M. Beattie, 
the group opposes all forms of what it considers 
pornography and obscenity.

Mountain States Legal Foundation
Denver, CO
(303) 861-0244
Conservative legal foundation. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Founded in 1977 with 
help from Joseph Coors. Its first president, 
James Watt, became Interior Secretary under Reagan.

Nation of Islam
Chicago, IL
Publishes the Final Call. Combines 
ultra-conservatism, a unique interpretation of 
Islam, racial separatism, and Black nationalism. 
NOI leader Minister Louis Farrakhan and some of 
his associates promote conspiracy theories about 
Jews that reflect historic far right bigotry.

National Association for Abstinence Education
6201 Leesburg Pike, Suite 404
Falls Church, VA
(703) 532-9459
An association for groups promoting 
abstinence-only sex education curricula. Director 
Jo Ann Gasper is also a project director of Teen Choice.

National Association of Evangelicals
1023 15th St., NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 789-1011
A large and influential group that represents 
conservative evangelicals in Washington, DC

National Association of Christian Educators (NACE)
Citizens for Excellence in Education (CEE)
Box 3200
Costa Mesa, CA 92628
(714) 546-5931
Both groups are headed by Robert L. Simonds, who 
is on the Coalition on Revival (COR) steering 
committee. NACE works closely with COR. NACE's 
purpose is to "to reclaim our Christian heritage 
in our public schools." CEE is a division of 
NACE. Typical rhetoric: "CEE enables parents to 
replace faith-destroying curricula with programs 
that support moral values." Argues that students 
in public schools are "being taught a socialistic 
global worldview, and being indoctrinated with 
new age, atheistic and value-free ideologies." 
Together, both groups publish the Education 
Newsline newsletter.

National Association of Scholars
Princeton, NJ
Ultra-conservative group of academics that 
publishes the quarterly Academic Questions.

National Center for Policy Analysis
Dallas, TX
Conservative policy analysis. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Member, Earth Day 
Alternatives coalition in 1990.

National Citizens Action Network
P.O Box 10459
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
(714) 850-0349 Voice
Led by David W. Balsiger, the NCAN specializes in 
videotapes. Its publication, Family Protection 
Scoreboard, carries articles by Robert W. Lee, a 
contributing editor to Conservative Digest and 
the John Birch Society's New American. 

National Coalition Against Pornography
P.O. Box 7777
Cincinnati, OH 45231
(513) 521-6227
Fights pornography. Seeks constraints or codes 
that would affect free expression and the arts. 
See also Enough is Enough!.

National Coalition on Television Violence
Seeks constraints or codes that would affect free 
expression and the arts.

National Committee of Catholic Laymen, Inc.
150 E. 35th St.
Room 840
New York, NY 10016
(212) 679-7330
Publishes Catholic Eye, a conservative Catholic 
newsletter. Related to Human Life Foundation, Inc.

National Committee for a Human Life Amendment
A Catholic anti-choice group.

National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB),
Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities
3211 Fourth Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017
A Catholic anti-choice group headed by Gail 
Quinn. The NCCB sponsors the U.S. Catholic 
Conference with its Committee for Pro-Life Activities.

National Empowerment Television
See Free Congress Foundation

National Inholders Association
Battle Ground, WA
Conservative policy analysis. Cooperated with the 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Originally composed 
primarily of persons holding title to land and 
buildings within federally-regulated lands such 
as national forests. Now organizes persons 
seeking to exploit the resources of federal lands.

National Legal Foundation
6477 College Park Square, Suite 306
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
(804) 424-4242 1-800-397-4242
Religious Right public interest law firm run by 
Robert Skolrood. Founded by Pat Robertson in 1985 
(and now independent of him), the National Legal 
Foundation provided consultation on the wording 
of the overturned Colorado homophobic initiative, 
Amendment Two. Publishes a small newsletter, The 
Minuteman, edited by John W. Paff.

National Parents' Commission
Johnstown, PA
814 536-4813
Opposes Outcomes Based Education (OBE). 

National Review
150 East 35th St. 
New York, NY 10016
212 679-7330
William F. Buckley Jr. has established the 
magazine as the erudite yacht of conservative 
publishing sometimes overlooked in a sea of scows.

National Rifle Association of America
Washington, DC
Conservative policy analysis primarily relating 
to gun ownership but embracing a larger 
right-wing agenda. Cooperated with the Madison 
Group in early 1990's. 

National Right to Life Committee
419 7th St., NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20004
(202) 626-8800
(800) 543-3937 [1-800-LIFE-YES] (hotline)
(202) 393-5433 Federal Legislative Hotline
Fights abortion rights and threats to "innocent 
human life." Publishes National Right to Life News.

National Right To Work Committee
National Right To Work Legal Foundation
8001 Braddock Road
Springfield, VA 22160
(703) 321-9820
Reed Larson is president of both groups which 
aggressively organize against labor unions. 
Typical fundraising letter: "we're successfully 
battling against the union bosses' forced 
unionism abuses and the union bossess are furious."

National Security Caucus
See American Security Council

National Strategy Information Center
1730 Rhode Island Ave., NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 429-0129
Ultra-conservative think tank covering  
foreign policy, military, and national security 
issues. Publishers of Political Warfare: 
Intelligence, Active Measures, and Terrorism 
Report. Coordinates the Consortium for the Study 
of Intelligence and its Working Group on 
Intelligence Reform. 

National Taxpayers Union
Mail Address:
325 Pennsylvania Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20003
Walk-in Office:
713 Maryland Ave., NE
Washington, DC 20002
Conservative policy analysis. Cooperated with the 
Madison Group in the early 1990's. Promotes a 
balanced budget through shrill direct mail 
campaigns that sometimes are deceptively designed 
to mimic offical government letters. Typical 
direct mail appeal: "Congress has not the 
foggiest idea of reality...[t]hey waste money and 
see nothing wrong with giving away our 
hard-earned taxpayer money to the special 
interests." Not to be confused with U.S. 
Taxpayers Party.

The New American
See John Birch Society

The New Federalist
See LaRouche Network.

New Coalition for Economic and Social Change
Chicago, IL
Conservative network & policy analysis group. Was 
member of Madison Group in early 1990's. 

New England Center for Political Studies and Research
Springfield, MA
Conservative policy analysis. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Cannot locate 
current phone listing.

New England Legal Foundation
Boston, MA
(617) 695-3660
Conservative legal foundation. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

New Life Treatment Center
Ministry that promotes the conversion of gay men 
and lesbians to heterosexuals through counseling.

New York Guardian
316 Great Neck Road
Great Neck, NY 10021
(718) 229-8134
An alarmingly-nasty newspaper aligned with the 
Catholic Right. 

Olin Foundation
Leading funder of conservative and 
ultra-conservative causes.

Operation Rescue
P.O. Box 127
Summerville, SC 29484
(803) 821-8441
Actually based in Melbourne, Florida, OR was 
founded in Binghampton, N.Y. Aggressively fights 
abortion rights with militant clinic actions that 
cross the line from civil disobedience to assault.

Opus Dei
Reactionary fundamentalist Catholic lay society 
which makes totalitarian-style demands of its followers.

Oregon Citizens Alliance
9150 SW Pioneer Ct., Suite W
Wilsonville, OR 97070
(503) 682-0653
Started by Lon Mabon, the OCA sponsored the 
Oregon Abnormal Behavior Initiative. Mabon was 
briefly head of the Oregon chapter of the 
Christian Coalition, but later parted company. 
OCA has been active in nearby states trying to 
organize similar groups. Mabon presented a 
workshop in organizing against civil rights 
legislation for homosexuals at Pat Robertson's 
Second Annual Road to Victory conference in 1992.

Pacific Legal Foundation
Sacramento, CA
Conservative legal foundation. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations.

Pacific Research Institute (for Public Policy)
Conservative think tank. Was member of Madison 
Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Member, Earth Day 
Alternatives coalition in 1990.

Parents Music Resource Center
Seeks constraints or codes that would affect free 
expression and the arts. Supports parental 
warning system for music found offensive. Some 
fear it would lead to censorship.

Pattern Research
Denver, CO
303 778-0880
Conservative policy analysis. Cooperated with the 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Pennsylvania Family Institute
Harrisburg, PA
Conservative policy analysis. Cooperated with the 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

The Phyllis Schlafly Report.
P.O. Box 618
Alton, IL 62002
Unvarnished Schlafly. Typical rhetoric: "Warning: 
Much of the college curriculum has been 
politicized by the liberals and the 
feminists...and shifted to what is called 
`Oppression Studies,' that is, readings of 
third-rate feminist and minority writers who 
attack Western civilization as sexist, racist, 
and oppressive." Published by Eagle Trust Fund. 
See also Eagle Forum.

The Pink Sheet on the Left
See American Sentinel.

Pioneer Fund
Funds research in a pattern that suggests a 
problematic concern with biologically-determinate 
racial nationalism.

Pioneer Institute
85 Devonshire St., 8th Floor
Boston, MA 02109
(617) 723-2277
Conservative state think tank promoting free 
market solutions to social problems. Was member 
of Madison Group in early 1990's. Founded in 1988 
by Lovett C. Peters, "a Boston businessman, 
philanthropist, and trustee of the Foundation for 
Economic Education and Hillsdale College.

Plymouth Rock Foundation
26 McKinley Circle
Marlborough, NH 03455
(603) 876-4505
Rus Walton leads a campaign to rewrite the 
history of disestablishment and promote the idea 
that America was meant to be a Christian nation 
in an effort to "reclaim America for Jesus Christ."

Political Economy Research Center
Bozeman, MT
Conservative think tank. Was member of Madison 
Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Member, Earth Day 
Alternatives coalition in 1990.

Populist Party
Repeated schisms makes it difficult to track, 
but essentialy an electoral formation that 
promotes a hard right wing version of populism 
regarding government bureacracy, mixed with 
nativism that in some instances embraces theories 
of racism and fascism. Right-wing conspiracy 
theorist Bo Gritz was one presidential candidate 
supported by the Populist Party.

Pro-Life Action League
6160 North Cicero Ave., Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60646
(312) 777-2900
Director Joseph M. Scheidler is author of Closed: 
99 Ways to Stop Abortion. Promotes militant 
direct action.

Project Reality
P.O. Box 97
Golf, IL 60029-0097
(708) 729-3298
Produces the abstinence-only curricula Choosing 
the Best and Facing Reality. Director is Kathleen 
M. Sullivan. Original name of Project Reality was 
Project Respect, which was a subsidiary division 
of the Committee on the Status of Women run by 
Kathleen M. Sullivan. Project Respect originally 
promoted the Sex Respect abstinence-only 
curriculum now handled by Respect, Inc. Not to be 
confused with Respect, Inc. despite earlier ties.

Project Respect
Renamed. See Project Reality

Public Affairs Research Institute for New Jersey
Princeton, NJ
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Research Council on Ethnopsychology
William Coulson, Ph.D. runs the Council and is 
its chief expert, administrator, and staff. 
Opposes comprehensive sexuality education, 
especially as relates to gays and lesbians. 

Reason Foundation
Santa Monica, CA
Conservative think tank. Was member of Madison 
Group in early 1990's. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Member, Earth Day 
Alternatives coalition in 1990.

The Report
42640 10th St. West
Lancaster, CA 93534
(800) 462-4700
An anti-gay project of the Springs of Life Church 
where Ty Beeson is pastor. Ty co-produced, with 
his wife, Jeannette Beeson, the 
widely-distributed Gay Agenda series videotapes, 
The Gay Agenda, March on Washington, and Gay 
Agenda In Public Education. Together the Beesons 
are copublishers of the monthly Lambda Report: 
Monitoring the homosexual agenda in American 
politics & culture. Peter LaBarbera is founder 
and editor of the Lambda Report. Not to be 
confused with The Lambda Update of the Lamda 
Legal Defense & Education Fund, an organization 
that defends lesbian and gay civil rights.

Respect, Inc.
231 East Broadway
Bradley, IL 60915
(815) 932-8389
Produces the Sex Respect abstinence-only 
curriculum designed to replace comprehensive sex 
education courses. Early workbook written by 
Coleen Kelly Mast.

Richardson Foundation
Leading funder of conservative and 
ultra-conservative causes.

Rockford Institute
934 Main St.
Rockford, IL 61103
(815) 964-5819
Paleoconservative think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. Publications of 
the Rockford Institute, which is led by Allan 
Carlson, include The Family in America and 
Chronicles (formerly Chronicles of Culture). A 
main concern is the erosion of traditional values 
resulting from an increasingly pluralistic 
society. Unhappy with moral tone of modern 
industrial capitalism.

Rose Institute for State and Local Government
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA.
Conservative think tank. Was member of Madison 
Group in early 1990's.

Rutherford Institute
P.O. Box 7482
Charlottesville, VA 22906-7482
(804) 978-3888
Founded by John W. Whitehead, the Rutherford 
Institute distributes tapes from 
Reconstructionist leader R.J. Rushdoony and 
ultra-conservatives such as Phyllis Schlafly of 
Eagle Forum, among others. Promotes the secular 
humanism conspiracy theory.

Sahara Club
Militantly anti-environmentalist group of 
off-road vehicle enthusiasts.

Scaife Foundation
Leading funder of conservative and 
ultra-conservative causes.

Sequoia Institute
Washington, DC
Conservative policy analysis. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Shavano Institute
Hillsdale, MI
Hosted by Hillsdale College. Conservative think 
tank and policy analysis group. Cooperated with 
the Madison Group in early 1990's.

South Carolina Policy Council
Columbia, SC
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

South Foundation
Knoxville, TN
Conservative policy analysis. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Southwest Policy Institute
Edmond, OK
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order
of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes
and of Malta
See Knights of Malta.

Spatula Ministries
P.O. Box 444
La Habra, CA 90631
(213) 691-7369
Ministry that promotes the conversion of gay men 
and lesbians to heterosexuals through counseling. 
Works with family and friends.

Specular
Chicago, IL
Conservative policy analysis. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. No current phone 
listing in Chicago.

The Spotlight
300 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 544-1794
Far Right. Liberty Lobby publishes The Spotlight, 
a newspaper with a circulation of over 100,000. 
While calling itself a populist group defending 
family values and American patriotism, Liberty 
Lobby is a major source of bigotry against Jews. 
The Spotlight has praised neo-Nazi skinheads
and the Waffen SS, while promoting historical 
revisionists who claim the accepted history of 
Hitler's genocide is an exaggeration. A project 
of Willis Carto who also founded (and was 
recently ousted from) the Institute for 
Historical Review and Noontide Press. Has 
attracted support from and promoted anti-CIA 
authors Mark Lane, L. Fletcher Prouty, and Victor 
Marchetti. Marchetti has also published a book 
authored by LaRouche operatives. Aggressively 
trying to recruit from across the 
political spectrum.

State Policy Network
Indiana
219 489-8121
A loosely-knit network of conservative state 
think tanks, networks, and legal foundations. 
Replaced the Madison Group.

Stop Planned Parenthood, Inc. (STOPP)
P.O. Box 8
La Grangeville, NY 12540
National director is James Sedlak. Purpose is 
relatively self-explanatory.

Students for America
Chapell Hill, NC
Champions ultra-conservative causes especially 
around military issues. Publishes The Front Line Report.

Summit Ministries
Box 207
Manitou Springs, CO 80829
(719) 685-9103
Led by David Noebel, formerly of Billy James 
Hargis's Christian Crusade. Summit publishes the 
Summit Journal and is a heavy promoter of the 
work of Paul Cameron. Noebel is author of a major 
(and lengthy) textbook used by the Christian 
Right: Understanding the Times: The Story of the 
Biblical Christian, Marxist/Leninist and Secular 
Humanist Worldviews.

Strategic Christian Services
1221 Farmer's Lane, Suite B
Santa Rosa, CA 95405-9963
(707) 578-7700
Dennis Peacocke is the president of this group 
devoted to rebuilding America on Biblical principles.

Sword of the Spirit
Michigan
A network of ultra-conservative charismatic 
Catholic lay communities whose drift toward a 
totalitarian-style structure led to an 
investigation by church authorities. The U.S. 
headquarters was the Word of God community in 
Michigan. Thomas S. Monaghan's Domino's 
Foundation funded projects related to Sword of 
the Spirit.

Teen-Aid, Inc.
West 22 Mission
Spokane, WA 99201-2320
(509) 466-8679
Opposes comprehensive sexuality education. LeAnna 
Benn, co-founder and international director, is a 
co-editor of Me, My World, My Future, an 
abstinence-only curriculum.

Texas Public Policy Foundation
San Antonio, TX
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Town Hall
On Compuserve computer network
(202) 546-4400 [voice line at Heritage 
Foundation, ask for Town Hall information]
An electronic bulletin board (BBS) and 
interactive dial-up computer service for the 
conservative movement carried on the Compuserve 
computer network. Sponsored by National Review 
and the Heritage Foundation. Includes electronic 
(ASCII) text version of materials from groups 
such as the The Free Congress Foundation's 
National Empowerment Television project, Focus on 
the Family, The Leadership Institute, 
International Freedom Foundation, Citizens 
for a Sound Economy, and the State Policy Network 
of state-based think tanks. 

Tradition, Family and Property (TFP)
See American Societies for the Preservation of 
Tradition, Family, and Property

Traditional Values [Coalition] (TVC)
100 S. Anaheim Blvd., Suite 350
Anaheim, CA 92805
(714) 520-0300
(202) 547-8570 (Washington, DC)
Founded and led by Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, TVC has 
been active in anti-gay and -lesbian initiatives 
and fought school-based counseling program for 
gay and lesbian teens, Project 10. Roger 
Magnuson, author of Are Gay Rights Right? (the 
copyright to which is held by the Berean League), 
is a frequent contributor to the TVC newsletter.

Understanding the Times
Liberty Bell Press
P.O. Box 32
Flourissant, MO 63032
A ministry run by indefatigable 
ultra-conservative author John A. Stormer, whose 
books None Dare Call It Treason, None Dare Call 
It Treason: 25 Years Later, Anatomy of a Smear, 
The Death of a Nation, and Growing Up God's Way, 
have sold over ten million copies. In 1992, 
Stormer was still lecturing about the Red Menace.

Unification Movement
The extended family of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's 
political, cultural, and religious organizations 
which number in the hundreds. The core is the 
theocratic Unification Church which seeks to 
unify all religions and governments under divine 
guidance as reflected by Moon. Significant echoes 
of clerical fascism. Challenges strict 
environmental regulations. Influential in 
spawning the Wise Use movement.

Urban Policy Research Institute
Dayton, Ohio
Conservative policy anaysis. State think tank. 
Was member of Madison Group in early 1990's. 

US English
818 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 200
Washinton, DC 20006
(202) 833-0100
Suspicious of bilingualism.

United States Taxpayers Party
An electoral vehicle for Howard Phillips of the 
Conservative Caucus. Opposes "Condoms in the 
schools; the New World Order and foreign aid; 
abortion; high taxes, excessive spending, and 
burdensome regulation; [and] quotas and `gay 
rights'." Not to be confused with National 
Taxpayers Union.

Victim Souls for the Unborn Christ Child
See Lambs of Christ.

WallBuilders
David Barton's ministry to "affect legislation" 
by working "directly with various state and 
federal legislators," to influence "passage of 
legislation built on biblical values."

The Wanderer
201 Ohio St.
St. Paul, MN 55107-9984
(612) 224-5733
A weekly anti-modernist orthodox Catholic 
newspaper published for 126 years with little 
change in its editorial viewpoint, and proud of 
it. Editor A.J. Matt, Jr. Recent signed editorial 
by Frank Morriss: "Liberals Can Take Blame For 
Our Descent Into Barbarism." Carries columns 
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., Joseph Sobran, and 
Patrick J. Buchanan. 

Washington Institute for Policy Studies
Bellevue, WA
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's.

Washington Legal Foundation
1705 N St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 857-0240
Conservative legal foundation. Describes itself 
as litigating to preserve and expand free 
enterprise. Was member of Madison Group in early 1990's.

Western States Legal Defense Foundation
Challenges strict environmental regulations.

Where Grace Abounds
P.O. Box 18871
Denver, CO 80218
(303) 322-2027
Ministry that promotes the conversion of gay men 
and lesbians to heterosexuals through counseling. 
Works with family and friends as well as
"former" homosexuals.

Wisconsin Policy Research Institute
Milwaukee, WI
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Wise Use Movement
Not a formal organization but a loosely-knit 
movement. Challenges strict environmental regulations.

Women Affirming Life, Inc.
159 Washington St. 
Brighton, MA 02135
Catholic lay women's group opposed to abortion rights.

Women Exploited by Abortion
Anti-Abortion group focusing on post-abortion experience.

Women for Faith and Family
Catholic lay women's group that opposes the 
feminist movement.

Word of God 
See Sword of the Spirit.

Wyoming Heritage Society
Casper, WY
Conservative think tank. Was member of Madison 
Group in early 1990's.

Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies
Norwalk, CT
Conservative state think tank. Was member of 
Madison Group in early 1990's. 

Yellow Ribbon Coalition
POB 240
Springfield, Oregon 97477
503 747-5874
Primarily supports the timber industry interests 
against the environmental movement.

Young Americans for Freedom
National organization of ultra-conservative 
college students. National office has moved 
several times in recent years, with last known 
location in Indiana. 

Young America's Foundation
110 Elden St.
Herndon, VA 22070
(703) 318-9608 
A foundation established by friends and 
former leaders of Young Americans for 
Freedom. Typical fundraiser: "Long a target of 
the peaceniks and radical left, the campus 
radicals, now assisted by the powerful ACLU, are 
using the longtime military policy of keeping 
known homosexuals [out of] the armed forces as an 
excuse to throw ROTC off campus."

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Bibliography

Selected Influential Organizations and Periodicals
Promoting an Orthodox View
of Culture and Society.

Including Conservative, Ultra-conservative, 
Religious Right, Secular Right, Traditionalist, 
Moralist, and Far Right Institutions.

Compiled by 
Political Research Associates and the
Institute for First Amendment Studies

Updated 6/1/94


For More Details

Computer users with modems can download the 
updated version of this guide by calling The 
Public Eye BBS, (617) 272-5815, settings (8,N,1). 
For more details, consult the bibliography, and 
the following list of secondary sources used in 
compiling this guide:

A New Rite: Conservative Catholic Organizations 
and Their Allies. Askin, Steve. (Washington, DC: 
Catholics for Free Choice, 1994) (202) 986-6093.

The Activists Almanac: The Concerned Citizen's 
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Challenging the Christian Right: The Activists 
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"Burgeoning Conservative Think Tanks," a special 
issue of Responsive Philanthropy newsletter, 
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The Coors Connection: How Coors Family 
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"Opponents of Comprehensive Sexuality Education." 
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UCP's Guide to Uncovering the Right on Campus. 
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Credits

Selected Influential Organizations and Periodicals
Promoting an Orthodox View
of Culture and Society.

Including Conservative, Ultra-conservative, 
Religious Right, Secular Right, Traditionalist, 
Moralist, and Far Right Institutions.

Compiled by 
Political Research Associates and the
Institute for First Amendment Studies

Updated 6/1/94

Credits:

Most of this compendium was researched and 
annotated relying on primary documents in the 
collections of Political Research Associates and 
the Institute for First Amendment Studies. 
Additional assistance in the form of 
documentation came from the Data Center, the 
Boston Campaign for Freedom of Expression, the 
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, 
the University Conversion Project, the Resource 
Center, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for 
Democratic Renewal. 

We gratefully acknowledge the 
contributions of authors Russ Bellant, Skipp 
Porteous, Steve Askin, Fred Clarkson, Sara 
Diamond, Ph. D., William K. Burke, Dan Junas, and 
Leonard Zeskind. The PRA files reflect the 
collective work of Jean Hardisty, Ph.D., Margaret 
Quigley, Esq., Francine Davis, Judith Glaubman, 
Francine Almash, Peggy Shinner, Chip Berlet, 
and dozens of interns and volunteers. 

The files at IFAS also reflect the collective work 
of Skipp Porteous, Barbara Simon, Esq., and dozens of 
interns and volunteers. 

Thanks also to Sheila O'Donnell, Matthew N. 
Lyons, the File Ferrets of Blue Mountain 
Working Group, and the many people 
who faxed documents at the last minute. The 
annotations are drawn from primary documents and 
secondary information provided by these many 
groups and individuals, but as is customary, the 
final wording of the list and annotations is the 
sole responsibility of the author.

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